QP fi M DTW CC C ln rtllin K al1 orders ia alway. 

• ' ; i ' LOO Catalogues sent free. Any Play, Diaiogu 
II HbVW Quide Book> Wlg3 ftnd Be^j^^ ? Mt 

| want will be sent by AMIS' PUBLISHING CO., Cly do, 



4)£ 



'I 

J be 



11 



C*.S 



52 2 



ill 



5 S = 
rt-BO 



AMES' SERIES OF 

STANDARD AND MINOB DRAMA, 

No. 372. 

^ SUNLIGHT. ^ 



(Z)JB^iV.4 ) 



WITH CAS r OF CHARACTERS, ENTRANCES AND EXITS. 

RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PERFORMERS ON THE STAGE, 

DESCRIPTION OF COSTUMES AND THE.WHOLEOF THE 

STAGE BUSINESS; CAREFULLYJMARKED FROM 

THE MOST APPROVED ACTING COPY. 



PRICE 25 CENTS. 



CLYDE, OHIO : 

AMES' PUBLISHING CO, 
a- \__ j& 

Ment C. O. D. Money MUST .•iccompan}" all r 



^ ALPHABETICAL LIST DF 

iimes' Edition nf Plays 

— ♦ -sSQ^z •♦ ■ 

FIFTEEN CENTS EACH UNLESS OTHERWISE MARKED. 



294 
V 2 
164 

39 

43 
1U0 
125 
350 

89 
113 
226 

14 
321 
272 
160 
268 
310 
161 

60 

343 
152 
279 
173 
143 
162 
255 
300 
357 

311 
283 
117 
52 
76 
141 
26 
191 
362 
337 
194 

3 

9 

330 

261 

335 

355 
46 
227 
211 
251 
163 
91 
36 
34 
229 



rK 



DRAMAS. 

Arthur Eustace, 25c. 10 

A Desperate Game 3 

After Ten Years 7 

A Life's Revenge.. 

Arrah de Baugh 7 

Aurora Floyd 

Auld Robin Gray 25o 13 

By Force of Love 8 

Beauty of Lyons 11 

Bill Detriek 7 

Brae, the Poor House Girl.... 4 

Brigands of Calabria 

Broken Links 

Beyond Pardon 7 

Conn; or, Love's Victory 11 

Clearing the M'ste, 
Claim Ninety-Six (9( 

Dora 

Driven to the Wall in 

Defending the FN 
Daisy Garland's Fortune 

Driven from Home 7 

Dutch Jake 4 

East Lynne 

Emigrant's Daughter <S 

Fielding Manor... 9 

Gertie's Vindication 3 

Grandmother Hildebrand's 

London Assurance 

Legacy, 25c r> 

Gyp, The Hi 

Haunted by a Shadow... 

Hal Hazard, 25c 10 

Henry Granden 11 

How He Did It 3 

Hidden Treasures 

Hunter of the Alps 9 

Hidden Hand 15 

Josh Winchester 

Kathleen Mavourneen 12 

Lights and Shadows of the 

Great Rebellion, 25c 10 

Lady of Lyons 12 

Lady Audley's Sec 

Little Goldie, 25.\ 

Lost in London 

Miller's Daughter, 25c 7 

Mrs Willis' Will. 

My Paid 

Man and Wife 12 

Maud's Peril 

Midnight Mistake fi 

Millie, the Quadm 
Miriam's Crime... 

Michael Erie 

Miller of Derwent v 
Mistletoe Bough.. 

Mountebanks (The) 

New York Book A . > i 



NO. M. 

'ur Country Aunt. 

•Id Honesty 

81 Old Phil's Birthday 

85 Outcast's Wife 

Out on the World... 
331 Old Wayside Inn, '! 

1% Oath Bound 

29 Painter of Ghent .... 

278 l'enn II :0 

301 Pelegand Peter. 25c 

IS Poacher's Doom 

Pheelim O'Reokes' 
5 Phyllis, the Beggar Girl. 

110 Reverses 

45 Rock Allen 

Stub 

79 Spy of A Hani 

weetbrier 11 

-'liter 

lie Winning Hand 

144 Thekla 

:j 18 The Ad 

mmercial Drumine 
212 The Dutch Recruit 

Che Fatal Blow 

119 TheForty-Niners... 

I he General Manager 

93 The Gentleman in Black 
314 The Haunted Mill. 

112 The New Magdalen 

322 The Raw Recruit 

71 The Reward of Crime 

306 The Three Hats 

105 Through Snow and Sunsl 

201 Ticket of Leave Ma 
293 Tom Blossom 

193 r i 

•277 The Musical Captain 

Corn's Cabin 

2!0 Wild Mah.. 

121 Will-o'-the-U 

41 \ Von at Last 

192 Zion 

TEMPERANCE PLAYS. 

At Last 7 

75 Adrift 

\unt Dinah's Pledge 

Dot; the Miner's Daughte 

202 Drunkard [The] 

Drunkard's V * 

189 Drunkard's Doom... 

ard's 

of the Wine I 
104 1 



-^ Sunlight ; 4* 

-OR- 

The Diamond King. 



A WESTERN DRAMA, 

IN FOUR ACTS. 

— BY 

CdI. Geo. H. Hemiltnn, 

Author -of "Hotel Healthy,'''' "President," etc. 



•0 — 



PRINTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL MANU- 
SCRIPT. 



——TO WHICH IS /-DDE!) 

H k DESCRIPTION OF THE COSTUMES— CAST OF THE CHARACTERS 

— ENTRANCES AND EXITS— RELATIVE POSITIONS OP 

THE PERFORMERS ON THE STAGE, AND THE 
2 § » 

WHOLE OF THE STAGE BUSINESS. 

- • -J 

* sf — ° — 

©■» IT 

^> B a 

cs ©5 

Entered accord ino to the act of Congress in the year 1393, 5y 

I AMES 1 PUBLISHING CO., 

h, the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 



3 



AMES' PUBLISHING CO. 

y CLYDE, ohio: 



SUNLIGHT; OR, THE DIAMOND KING. 
CAST OF CHARACTERS. 

Sandy Marvin, A miner. 

Silas Steel, An Irish advertising agent. 

J ubal Jones, A negro servant 

"Win Klee, The laundry man, not such a fool as he seems. 

Yosemite Bill, The stage coach driver. 

Walter Burrell, A lieutenant in the U. S. Army. 

Frank Siloartte, Guerilla Tom. 

Juan Palacio, A briggand. 

Viol Vascard, Leader of Palaces gang. 

Philip Kedfern, A villain . 

Nellie Marvin, Called /Sunlight by the boys at the camp 

Mrs. John Marvin, Nellie's mother, a wido * 

Dollie Wallace, Up to the tim-s 

Miners, Mexicans and Brigands, etc. 

TIME IN REPRESENTATION— 1% hours. 
COSTUMES.— Mexican or Western. 

PROPERTIES. 

ACT I. — Cards, broom, valise, whip, letter, enveloves, four lega 
papers, paper money, bottle of water, two glasses, one rec ;ipt. 

ACT II. — Bar room out- lit, two tables, chairs, cards, bottles, 
four chisels, tin cups, large book, gun, pan of bread dough and 
Hour. 

ACT III.— Mining tools, headlight, colored glass, fur robes, 
couch, one barrel, six tin cups, gun and pistol. 

ACT IV.— Exterior of Yosemite Hotel. 



Notice: — The author of the "Diamond King, Unknown, Hote! 
Healthy, A Knight of Labor, The President, Deadwood Dick, 
Silver Bird." desires to state that at any time, parties who wish 
to * ngage his services for a production of either of these plays, 
can ao so by addressing Col. G. H. Hamilton, 59 Bond street, 
Cleveland, Ohio, or to the offing nf 4»n«' Ty '—*.i&B.mGrCo-, Clyde 
Ohio _ , _ 

TNP96-007048 

STAGE DIRECTIONS. 

p., means Right; l., Left; r. h., Eight Hand ; l. h., Left Hand; 
c, Cenier ; s. e., [2d e.,J Second Entrance ;u. e., Upper Entrance ; 
M. d., Middle Door; f., the Flat; d. y., Door in Flat; r. c, Right 
of Center; l. c, Left of Center. 

r r. c. c. l. c. c. 

*.*• Tbe reader is supposed to be upon the stage facing the audience. 



SUJVUGH1; 

—OK — 

The Diamond King, 



ACT I. 

SCENE. — Interior Yosemite Ho' el — lively music at rise of curtain — 
Redfern and Sandy sitting at table, cards in hand, pile of 
money on table. 

Sandy, (throws card* down and pushes himself back from table-** 
Redfern /oMs money up and puts it in a big pocket-book) No use, 
Mr. Redfern, luck is against me to-day; you have taken every 
cent fro n me in that last hand. 

Bedfern. (takes a drink) Cheer up, Sandy, better luck next 
time. The cards did run a little bad for you to-day, but we must 
always live in hopes of our luck changing. 

Sandy. No. I am afraid luck will never change forme, and now 
that every farthing is gone, it jm fitters very little to me, whether 
luck ever changes or not. 

Bedfern. There, you are discouraged, you must remember you 
have a wife, a mother, a child. 

Sandy, Yes, and the more I think of them, the harder it is for 
me to realize that I have squandered every penny of my earning. 
(takes bottle) My only comfort now is this, (taps bottle) This, 
Mr. Redfern, makes me forget it all. 

(pours out a glass and drinks it 
Bedfern. (rising) There was always a good motto taught while 
at college, and that motto was, "Enjoy lite while it lasts, for when 
we are dead, it's a long time." Ha! hai 
S'tndy. S > it is, so it is. 

Bedfern. Well Sandy, [ will leave you now, and if I am not 
engaged at anything serious to-morrow, I will come over with 
the mortgage all made out and ready to sign. At any rate I am 
in no hurry. This receipt is as good as a mortgage. (hold< up 
receipt— takes bottle, drinks) Hereto you, my boy, better luck 
next time, (crosses up to c, stands and looks baa's at Saxdy, 
whose head is bowed on the table — aside) Ha! ha! poor devil I 
have wrought his ruin, despondency has set in, his next move 
will be to fill a suicide grave. Ha! ha! (exit, r. c. e. 



4 SUNLIGHT; OB, THE DIAMOND KING. 

Sandy. "Enjoy lite while it lasts, tor when you are dead, you 
are dead a long time." How can I faceiuy sunlight, my wife and 
mother, now a beggar, a low despicable gambler. Sandy Marvin, 
you have wilfully thrown away all honor and respect, you deserve 
nothing more than a paupers grave. The grave did I say? {feels 
for pistol, looks cautiously around) lean never face them now, 
tis better to die. {puts pistol to head) What would 1 do, coward 
tnat I am, would I end my misery and plunge mother, wife and 
Child in deeper trouble? Shame on you, Sandy Marvin; be a 
man, live, work and redeem all that is lost, {stands up) I will ! 
(puts pistol in belt) For their sake, I will start anew — an ambi- 
tious soul and willing hands will always overcome adversities. 
This night do I swear, so long as I live, 1 will never touch another 
card. Heaven help me to keep that oath. 

Enter, Dollie, l. e. 

Dollie. Sandj', what's the matter? You look as if you had lost 
yer best friend. 

Sandy. So I have, Dollj r , for they do say, man's best friend is 
tha almighty dollar, and I have lost the last one 1 had. 
I Dollie. Anoiher game of draw, eh? and I will bet it was with 
that blackleg, Philip Redfern. 

Sandy. Yes, he and 1 played a small game, at least, we started 
in to play it small, but soon the excitement came, bets were heavy 
and — 

Dollie. As usual, you lost. Say, Sandy, take a fool's advice: 
Don't ever play cards with Philip Redfern, for he is not what 
he looks. 

Sandy. Why Dollie, how strange you talk. 

Dollie. I know the old saying, ail women have queer Ideas. 
My ideas may be queer, ray notions funny, but I tell you, Philip 
Redfern is not what he pretends to be. Sandy, look- at that tele- 
gram and read what it says. (hands him paper 

Sandy. Why, it's a cipher telegram, received by Mr. Redlern, 
at Carson City, dated three days ago, and that is all that 1 can 
make out of it. 

Dollie. Of course we can't make much out of it, but it proves 
clearly to me that he is a rascal, for honest men and their pards, 
don't send such messages. Now do they? 

Sandy. Where did you get this, Dollie? 

Dollie. I found it on the lloor just now. 

Sandy, {going l.) Well, when you see Mr. Redfern, give it tt 
him. (hands paper to Dollie 

Dollie. Alright, Sandy. I will, {exit, Sandy, l. e.) Gee! but 
don't Sandy look blue. "Well, card games must be awfully ex- 
citing, to make a fellow loose the last dollar he has, and then to 
think Sandv would be such a softy, to play with that skinflint, 
Redfern. Oh! well, it takes all kinds of people to make a world. 
{roes up stage — quartette sings outside) There goes the jolliest set 
of miners that ever graced a mining camp, happy and light hearted 
after a hard days work. "Happy is the being, who earns his 
bread by the sweat of his brow." Well, it is now G o'clock and 
nearly time for the stage coach ; Yosemite Bill must be awful late 
to-nio'ht. (rings bell — large bell rope from side of hotel 

Jubal. {outside, R., 2 e.') Yes' urn, I'se a coming! 



SUNLIGHT; <)L\ THE DIAMOND KING. 5 

Dollie. Well, Mr. Coon, you rush. 

Enter, Jubai , n., 2 v. 

Jubal. Ain't I rushing? Here I am. 

Dollie. Say Jubal, mother, say-*, that somebody has boon down 
cellar ;md tapped the barrel of whiskey, and now it's nearly empty, 
and I'll gamble you have had a hand in ir. 

Jubal. Who, me? 

Dolli". Yes, you ! 

Jubl. No, indeed, this nigger never took dot whiskey. Nig- 
gers never drink whiskey, niggers don't drink nothin' but gin, 
and nigger gi n a t that. 

Dollie. Come here, 1 am going to teat your breath. 

Jubal. What is yer gQiny; to do? 

Dollie. Why, I am going to see if yout>ok the whiskey or not. 

Jubal. How can yon find out? 

Dollie. {strikes a match) Do you see this match. Well, now 
open your mouth, and it you drank the whiskey, the alcohol will 
form gas, that will come trom your mouth, this lighted match 
close to the nostril, will ignite the gas, and — 

Jubal. Away goes dis nigger. Explosion— :io Misses Dollie, 
you can't explosion this coon. Uph ! uph ! 

Dollie. Then you drank the whiskey. 

Jubal. I specks I did. 

Dollie. I knew ir. Now what did you do it for? 

Jubal. For excitement. 

Dollie. Excitement, eh? Well, Mr. Marvin will give you all 
the excitement you want, when he finds it out. A half a barrel 
of whiskey. i 

Jubal. No, no, Miss Dollie, I didn't drink that much, I only 
drank fifty quarts, the Chinaman drank the rest. 

Dollie. The Chinaman? Does he drink whiskey? 

Jubal. Does he? Well, I should sav so. Miss Dollie, dem 
cussed Chinaman mixes rice, whiskey, opium and rats all together, 
eats them, lies down and has der shakes, and dis Chinaman, Win 
Klee, is always a smoking something that smell? awfully. If be 
don't stop it, I ain't a goin' to sleep in that room any more. 

Dollie. Now Jube, you know it's time for the tables to be set 
for supper, the boys will all be here in a minute, and you had 
better keep shady when Sandy is around. 

Jubal I specks I will. Miss Do lie. (exit, r., 2 e. 

Dollie. A nigger and a Chinaman, they are a healthy pair, you 
bet. {can introduce specialty if desired 

Enter, Silas, l., 2 e. 

Silas. Hello! Dollie, me darlint, how are ye, sure, and yer 
looks as a sunflower that; bends in the breezes, you see I have just 
returned from the heights of yonder massive mountain, where I 
swung off my perch like the great American eagle and painted 
salvation oil on every giant boulder I came across, and when I was 
at the top of that great peak, I thought of you me darlint, and, 
and, and — 

Dollie. What Silas. 

Silas, Salvation oil, bedad. (business of being bashful) Oh! 
if I had the courage, I'd— by the way me jewel, does you know 



6 SUNLIGHT; OR, THE DIAMOND KING. 

what I come over here for? (D( llik shakes head) You don't, 
well, I will tell you. I am in search of that infernal Chinaman. 

Dollie. Win klee? What h;is he done now? 

Silas. Be gorra! whatis it he hasn't done. This noon he stol^ 
all me paints, pot-* and brushes, and o:i every rock, tree and fence, 
for miles around, he has made Chinese puzzles. 

Dollie, Well Silas, the Chinaman was only trying to help you. 

Silas. Helping me, is it? Is it helping me to drink a gallon of 
me turpentine last Sunday, and call it whiskey? And do yoi 
think it is helpiug me, to paint higerlicks all over the town, and 
have the marshal arrest me with being a nuisance? Just as sure 
as I meet him, he'll be a dead Chinaman, and it's helping me no 
more he will be. 

Dollie. Well, Silas, that was bad, I feel sorry for you. 

Silas, (aside) Ah ! now is me time, I'll tell her how much I 
love her. (aloud) Oh! Dollie, me darlint, the more I look at 
you, the more I see — I see. (aside) Ah ! bad cess to me. Blarney, 
what the devil is the matter wid me. 

| Dollie. (aside) Oh! goodness, 1 do believe he is going to pro- 
pose, (aloud) Ye», Silas, go on— go on ! 

1 Silas. That's what I am trying to do, to goon. Ah! Miss 
Dollie Wallace, you can see here on my bended knees — 

Silas kneels to Dollie — horn blown outside, ratchet wheel is 
worked, whip is cracked. 

Bill, (outside l.) Whoa! 

Enter, Win Klee, r. e., runs and kicks Silas, who is on his knees. 

Win. Stagee coachee comee, stagee coachee comee. 

Win Klee runs off stage, r., 2 e., Silas gets wp and runs after him 
and falls. 

\ Silas. Bad luck to that Chinaman. (exit, r. e. 

Enter, Bill and Silcartie, l., 3 e. — Bill carries a valise and 

wh>p. 

Bill. Here we are at last, stranger, and I reckon you found it 
a long and tedious ride. 

Silcartie. Yes, and it was a rough ride, too. They done 
well, when they name you dare devil Bill. Tell mell you drive 
over hill, dale, mountain and valley ; surely you care very little 
for your life. What place is this? 

Bil 1 . Yosemite Inn, of Yosemite Valley. 

Silcartie. Who is landlord here ? 

Bill. Sandy Marvin, and one of the jolliest of landlords in all 
California. 

Silcartie. (to Dollie) Can I get a room an 1 supper? 

Dollie. Yes, sir ! I'll go in and arrange it for you. Right this 
way, sir ! 

Silcartie. Try and See Sandy Marvin, Bill, and send him to 
m^ at once. 

Bill. I will, Squire. (exit, Dollie and Silcartie, l. e. 

Enter, Mrs. Marvin, r., 1 e. 

Mrs. M. Stage was late to-night. Bill, what's up? 

Bill. Jlpads are heavy, Widdy, and tough rolling, 'sides I was 



SUNLIGHT; OB, THE DIAMOND KING. 7 

delayed at ther Twin Trees to-day. Sit down, Widely, I want to 
have a long and confidential talk wid you. I am kinder worried 
to-day, and perhaps you can tell me how to drive away the blues ; 
first of all, read that letter. (hands letter 

Mrs. M. (take* letter, reads) "Fort Laramie, Sept. 20th. — 
Friend Yosmite Bill, Carson City: On your next trip you can 
expect me, your old friend, to ride with you. Mv three years are 
up here and 1 shall return. Give my love to Sunlight and mv old 
pard, Sandy. Yours as ever, Bud," So Bud is coming home 
again, eh? Well Sandy and Sunlight will be glad of that. 

Bill. Don't you be too sure of that. 

Mrs. M. Why, what do you mean, Bill? 

Bill. For eight long years Sandy and Bud were partners, where 
one went you was sure to se^ ihe other; they loved each other 
better then ever two men were known to love before, till at last 
Bud got to drinking and gambling heavily. So Sandy got him 
piuted scout up to r'ort Laramie, them two boys and partners 
parted, and now I tells you Widdy, when th'y separated, there 
were many tears shed over it, but I am afraid it was only a dipper 
full, to what will flow at his coming now. 

Mrs. M. What makes you think that Bud's coming, will cause 
sorrow and tears? 

Bill, it's been nigh onto ten years since yer old man passed in 
his checks, and had a hole scooped out for him, under the hill. 

Mrs. M. Yes, ten years ago last April. 

Bill. And fifteen years ago next month, I dropped into your 
cabin, one dark night, with a little girl in my arms, she 'peared 
to he about five years old — I 

Mrs. M. Or six, we never could make out. She was a burning 
up with the fever— you found her in a basket floating down the 
creek. I 

Bill. Yes, that's what I told you. I brought her to you, be- 
cause you was the mother of the Valley. 

Mrs. M. And good luck, Bill, her coming brought to us. And 
may heaven be praised for that night's work. 

Bill. Luck, you bet she did, them little ones alwavs do. I 
read a long time ago, in a big book, about that King Pin, who 
struck the little game called Faro, and named it after himself: 
now he had a child that he found floating in a creek, and called it 
Moses, Now I wasn't going back on Scripture, so made up my 
mind I'd do the right thing by the little gal, so all at once the 
boys christened the child Sunlight. 

Mrs. 31. Yes, and well named, for that child was a dancing 
ray of sunlight alwavs to u-. 

Bill. Everybody loved that gal, and they all claimed she was a 
nugget of luck to the camp. S iy. Widdy, I just staked a claim, 
when I got that chi.d, says I, "Bill, you be her dady, and ther 
Widdy thar shall be her mother," so I fetched her here. I be- 
lieves that the angels dropped one of their little sisters in the creek, 
just to make us poor sinners ashamed of ourselves. You has done 
a mother's duty by that little gal ; you brought her up in the fear 
of the Lord, and when she reached womanhood, your son, Sandy 
Marvin, the pride of our camp, won her hand and made- her his 
wife. 

Mrs. M. Yes, Bill, and now why do you .predict sorrow at 



8 SUNLIGHT; OB, THE DIAMOND KING, 

Bud's coming back? 

Bill. Sandy may be glad enough, but neither you nor him 
knows all. 1 am afraid the sunlight of happiness of this valley, 
will be turned to clouds of misery. I don't know why, but ever 
since I got this letter, I feel so strange. 

Mrs. M. Bill, it's nigh two years since Sandy and Sunlight 
were married. 

Bill. Yes, (both rising) Widely, two years of sunlight, and 
now I am afraid the shadows will fall, but I must be going. 

Exit, Bill, e., 1 e., and Mrs. Marvin, l. e.— Sunlight is heard 
s nging off l. 

Enter, Sunlight, l. e. 

Enter, Redfekn, r. e., slowly, comes c, unseen by Sunlight. 

SunluAt. What a delightful walk I have had, way up the 
height oT Eagle rock, to gather these beautiful wild flowers, and 
to watch the golden sun as it sank to rest. 

I (has bunch of flowers in hand and lays them on table, comes down C. 
I Bedfern. I beg your pardon, (lijts hat) Mrs. Marvin; I trust 
this will be no intrusion 'i 

\ Sunlight. Not knowing; any one was around, Mr. Redfern, the 
sound of your vo ce startled me. 

Bedfern. 1 well know it was quite rude to be an eaves dropper, 
but I assure you it is so seldom, one in thesa parts sees a beautiful 
picture, like i just beheld, that I dare say, I forgot myself and 
remained silent. 

Sunlight, (crosses to door) Thank you sir! you are quite com- 
plimentary this evening. (starts to go 

Bedfern. Mrs. Marvin, pray do not go away so hurriedly, 1 
have a few words, which 1 wish to say to you. 

Sunlight. To me, Mr. Redfern? 

Bedfern. Yes, and I trust you will And the conversation quite 
interesting, as it lies on a subject of the deepest interest to you. 

Sunlight, (returns to table, sits down) Of the deepest interest 
to me? Then Mr. Redfern, 1 assure you, I will give you all at- 
tention. 

Bedfern. Mrs. Marvin, to properly interest you, first of all I 
will speak of your husband's actions. Day by day, Sandy i; 
squandering his wealth, rum and the card table are earrving him 
down to destruction. It's only a question of a few months, when 
the end will come, and that end means disgrace, poverty and 
starvation — 

Sunlight. Starvation! 

Bedfern. It is a hard word, yet it is true ; only to-night, In a 
game with me, he tendered me this note for one tho isand dollars 
borrowed money, secured by a mortgage on all he possessed, and 
signed unconditionally, in three days time, 1 can claim all that he 
owns, unless this note is paid in full. 

Sunlight. Mr. Redfern, whv do yon tell me this? (rises 

Bedfern. To show to von the standing of the man you so 
proudly call husband. Oh! Sunlight, I know too well, "you do 
not love Sandy Marvin. ( Sunlight hams head) You respect 
this miner, yet you do not love him. For years, Sunlight, 1 have 
loved you fondly, ah! mad y. This is no place for you— come, 



SUNLIGHT; OB, THE DIAMOND KING. 

fly With me this night, and I promise you, yes, t swear to you. 
that I will give you every comfort, every luxury in life. 

Sunlight. See here, Philip Redfern, you forget sir ! I am a wife. 

Bedfern. In my mad love, I forget everything. 1 love you 
uridly and will love you — 

Sunlight. Another word on the subject, and I will call Silas 
Steel, and he — (starts to bell 

Bedfern. Stay just one- moment, the paper? that I hold over 
?andy Marvin's head, will place you all in the street, paupers, 
sound that alarm, and I will claim my own. 

Sunlight. Philip Redfern, if you are a man, I beg of you to go, 
and not stand there and taunt and insult a helpless woman. 

Bedfern. I offer you a home of luxury, with comfort and hap- 
piness. What can lie offer, nothing but poverty and misery. I 
await your answer, is it yes or no? 

Sunlight. It is no, a thousand times, no! (at door) Philip 
Redfern, now go ! 

Bedfern. No, not yet, Sunlight, you are dealing with a man, 
who would stop at nothing to accomplish his purpose. 

Sunlight. I believe you. 

Bedfern. Bud, your husband's partner is coming here soon. 
(Sunlight starts) Ah! you start; Sunlight, what would the 
world say, if I told them that you, the wife of Sandy Marvin, 
loved his partner. What would Sandy sav if he knew this? 

Sunlight. Philip Redfern, you coward ! go tell whom you may. 
Sandy Marvin is too much of a man to listen to a story that comes 
lrom such lips as yours. I 

Bedfern. You couldn't imagine how sweet you look, the temper 
you are in, helps to heighten the beautiful color of your face, 
(looks around) and as there is no one around, I'll just take a kiss 
from those pretty lips. (starts toward her. \ 

Enter, Sandy, l., 2 e., throws Redfern l. 1 

Sandy. Well, you rascal, what do you mean? Sunlight, ex- 
plain? 

Sunlight. Oh ! Sandy, beg him to go. 

Bedfern. Sandy Marvin, you are not very careful how you 
handle a man. 

Sandy. Redfern, I demand an explanation. 

Bedfern. Ask her ! she will tell you. 

Sandy. See here, sir ! I want you to git, and don't show your- 
self around here again. 

Bedfern. (crosses to c.) Yes, I'll go, but this, (shows paper) 
to-morrow, will make both you and her regret this hour. 

(exit, r., 2 e. 

Sandy. Well, he is pretty cool, ain't he? I rather think he is 
the nerviest man in all Frisko. What was he doing here? 

Sunlight. Oh! nothing, Sandy, nothing, dear husband to speak 
of, his words were not suited to my taste, I ordered him out, 
and — 

Sandy. He tried to kiss you, eh ? Well, I don't blame him for 
that. So he was talking about me, eh ? What did he say? 

Sunlight. Sandy, dear, what hopes have we for a future? • 

Sandy. A future, (aside) What can she mean? (aloud) 
Sunlight, give me a cup of brandy, (she gets brandy) Now go 
to your room and kiss our little one, and always remember I love 



20 SUNLIGHT; OB, THE DIAMOND KING. 

you dearer than life. (exit, Sunlight, l. e. 

Enter, Dollie, l., 1 e. 

Dollie. Sandy, there is an old gentleman in the office, that 
wi>hes to see you. 

Sandy. An old gentleman to see me — who can he be, Dollie? 

Dollie. I don't know, he came with Bill in thestasre coach, and 
if the snow was a flying east, I'd say It was Santa Claus coming 
to give us a Christmas gift. 

Sandy, (crosses to do<,r, laughing) Ha! ha! ha! {exit, l. e. 

Dollie. Here comes Yosemite Bill, Silas S'.eel, and that China- 
man, Win Klee. I bet they are going to have a game of cards. 
I'll just keep my eye on Mr. Silas Sreel, and if he thinks that I 
will marry a gambler, I'll show him I am made of different 
material. {exit, l. e. 

Enter, Bill, Steel, and Win Klee, r. e. 

Sttl. Come on Silas, lei's have a few minutes of draw. 

Silas. I'm with you, you bet! What will we play for? 

Dill. Fifty cent ante. (all sit at table 

Win. Me likee lokee, allee samee like a Melican man. 

Silas. Go on Chinaman, don't give us any of your blarney. 

Win. Playee plokee allee samee so — so. 

Bill. Let the heathern join us, and we will skin him in a few 
minutes. He ain't got much money. 

Win. Skinee Chinaman alle lightee. 

Silas. Here you heathen Chinee, I want you to fully under- 
stand, if you go to cheating, there will be :io laundry tolmorrow. 

(sticks kn>fe in table 

Win. Allighee. 

Bill, (pulls gun and lays on table) See here, Mr. Devil, no 
monkeying. 

Win. Chinaman no can monkey. 

Bill, (cuts cards) I deal, come ante up laundry. 

Win. Allightee, fifty cents. 

Cards are dealt, each one bets, Win Klee raises the better four 
times, to fifty cents better, at last Silas and Bill have every 
dollar np on the game, an.d they call the Chinaman — Bill has 
four sevens and a king, Silas has four nines and an ace. 

Win. No goodee, Chinaman has four aces. 

Win Klee holds his hands, so they can see, both Silas and Bill 
grab Win Klee as he starts to run away with the money — they 
stand him on his head, and three pack of cards fall out of his 
sleeves on the stage — they kick him off the stage yelling, Si las 
and Bill after him. 

Enter, Sandy and Silcartie, l. e. 

Sandy. Sit here, (oficrs chair) Mr. Silcartie. (both sit) Now 
we can talk without interruption. 

Silcartie. Are we alone? 

Sandy. Yes, quite alone. 

Silcartie. I don't know why it is, but there seems fro me, there 
is someone following me, that means me harm 



SUNLIGHT; OR, THE DIAMOND KING. 11 

Sandy, Oh! nonsense, Mr. Silcartie, you are a guest of Sandy 
Marvin, and not a living soul will harm you. 

Silcartie. (takes paper from breast) Here, Mr. Marvin, are 
certain papers I want yon to keep for me. One is my will, iriviiii: 
a 1 my entire esia^e to my child. The other is a valuable mining 
chart, where lies the secret of my life. Guard and protec; them 
with your life. 

Sandj. (takes papers) I certainly will, sir! 

Enter, Eedferx, r., 2 e., unseen. 

Sdcai lie. Listen to my story, fifteen years ago, one dark night, 
myself, wife and five year old child were at Carson City. °My 
child asked for bread, 1 was almost driven to desperation. Aye, 
Mr. Marvin. I was on the verge of madness, tor one year before, I 
wa* a prosperous business man in New York State; the bank failed 
and I lost all; being young, 1 took my family West. I wandered 
from post to post, but nothing could I find to aid my family. [ 
was nearly insane, when a man approache I me and made a tempt- 
ing oiler. He was the leader of a band of men, who then lived in 
Mexico. He offered me five hundred dollars to join his band; he 
recommended me to send my family t> the valley, where they 
would be eared for. That night, 1 put my wife and child in the 
coach, and I got up on the box with the driver, who was Yosemite 
Bill— 
Sandy. Yosemite Bill ? 

Silcartie. Yes, alter giving Bill the instructions, to care for ray 
wi e and child, and placing the five hundred dollars in his hand, I 
dropped from the boxand disappeared in the darkness. Thinking 
my family were well provided for, i joined the band, and for fit" 
teen years, I was one of the number. Three moi\ths after I had 
left my family with Yosemite Bill, 1 heard that \\i)e and child had 
been murdered by some Mexican, and from that time, I murdere I 
every Mexican I could find. One week ago, I met an Australian, 
(who was dying) — this package of money, six thousand dollars' 
he gave me, and requested me to bury his body and write to his 
home in Australia, to an aged father, telling him of his death, 
and what money was left, was mine; he also gave me this chart' 
which, if properly followed, would lead ma to a silver mine in 
Mexico, where he had secreted over one million dollars in dia- 
monds. If I ventured there and found the gems, they were mine. 
After laying him out to rest, I deserted the band ; "on learning 
from a friend, that my child still lived and was at this place, I re- 
solved to renounce the life I was leading, and find my child, and 
with the six thousand dollars, I felt satisfied we could live in 
comfort. But since I started for this place, it seems to me, my 
every action is watched. 

Sandy. Watched, and why ? 

Silcartie. When a man joins the band, he joins it for life, and 
to quit the band, means death. 
Sandy. Have no fear, Mr. Silcartie, you are safe here. 
Silcartie. You don't know this band, they are sworn to each 
other, and all traitors will die. 

Sandy. Yes, but you are not a traitor? 

Silcartie. Yes, I am a traitor, for I deserted the band, and 
marked me well, death will be my portion. 
Sandy. Your story is a wonderful one. The sequel to the story 



1Z SUNLIGHT; OB, THE DIAMOND KIN a. 

I will tell, fifteen years ago, Yosemite Bill, brought to the 
camp a baby that he had found floating in a creek, he said, aged 
live years, the little one was ill, mother nursed her back to health, 
life and strength. She grew to womanhood and became my wife. 

Silcartie. Your wife — she is my child. 

Sandy. Yosemite Bill is down at the water wheel; you remain 
here, and I will go and bring him to you, he will explain all. 

Silcartie. Stop, Sandy Marvin, I fear all is not well. The 
papers you have, I give to you, guard them with your life. If 
ever any harm should come to me, I want you to act as ni}'- legal 
attorney for my child, and give the money to her, and if ever you 
go to Mexico, you will find diamonds enough hidden there, to 
make you a diamond king. 

Sandy. Thank you, Mr. Silcartie, I'll go and find Bill, we will 
return here in a few moments. 

(exit, e., 1 e. — Philip Redfern advanced ioith clinched fists 

Silcartie, How strange I feel, it seems as if I see the eyes of my 
leader staring at me, crying the one word — 

Bedfem. Traitor ! 
| Silcartie. My God ! Viol Vascard, have mercy! mercy! 

Bedfem. (fastens his fingers around his throat) You dare ask 
for mercy, take it ! {chokes him, he dies — drops him) You ask for 
mercy, and you got what all traitors deserve, death ! (hastily 
searches him) ]STo money, no papers, that's strange. 

(exit, r., 2 e. 

Enter, Sandy and Bill, r., 1 e. 

» 
Sandy. Bill, here is your old friend — (sees body) My God ' 
what is the matter here? 

Bill, (kneels down) Frank! Frank Silcartie! No use Sandy, 
he is dead. 
Sandy. Dead ! 

Enter, Mrs. Marvin, Dollie and Silas, l. e. 

Dmnes. Dead ! 

Bill. Yes, poor man he is gone, and he has taken h's secret 
with him. 

Sandy. His secret? 

BUI. Yes, the secret of the diamond mine. 

Sandy, Ko, the chart is here, and his will — he is my wife's 
father. Some day it may be my good fortune, to go to Mexico, 
and find the treasures, and become a diamond king. 

CUB TAIN. 



ACT II. 



SCENE. — Interior of Yosemite Valley Inn, bar, etc. — Dolus dis- 
covered at table, making bread. 

Dollie. Of all the hotels that I ever got into, this takes the cake, 
bake shop and all the cookies. One week ago an old man came to 
'bis place and gave Sandy a big lot of money, and just like the 
sU>ry in books, he drops dead of heart disease, and there was time 



SUNLIGHT; OE, THE DIAMOND KING. 13 

good-for-nothing Chinaman, Win Klee, going all around the 
Milage ami saying, "Sandy Clans dead up there." Well, you 
c?.n c blame him. for he clon't know any better, and as for that 
Irishman, Silas Steel, I don't think hs has any more sense than 
die Chinaman. Now, heie he promised to take me over to Tom 
Shay's party last night, but he never showed up. You just wait 
till 1 see him, {pounds the dough) I'll just give it to him* and I'll 
let him know that he ain't got a poor' ignorant Chinaman to fool 
with. 

Enter, Win Klee, c. d., drunk. 

Win. Hullah ! hullah for Dollie; Dollie belly putty gallee, she 
allee samee likee puttyee muckee Win Klee. 

Dollie. Well, you heithern, you are drunk again, ain't you? 
Say, Win, is that the same old drunk, or a new one? 

Win, Allee samee, new drunkee, just likee a Melican manee, 
pavey. Oh! dollie, you go roundee and roundee, you awfully 
drunkec. 

Dollie. (grabs broom) You yellow eyed devil, don't you say 
that I'm drunk. 

Win. (frightene I) No ! no ! no ! you no savey, you no drunkee, 
Chinaman allee turned topseyee turveyee, Chinaman so awfullv 
iiekee, headee beilyee big. 

Dollie. See here, Win Klee, what cliJ you do with them elodies 
you took away from here two weeks ago, eh ? 

Win. O! Sandy's washee, washee— let me see, live shirtee, 
three dlaw. 
Dollie. No! no! there was no gloves put in the wash. 
Win. No gallee, you no savee, no glovee on handee, dlaw, 
dlaw, allee samee pull upee. (imitates drawers 

Dollie. Oh! you mean underwear. 

Win. Underwear allee samee diaw ; seven soekee, four col. 
Dollie. Col, col, what are you talking about, col? 
Win. Col — (imitates around neck) collee, savee. 
Dollie. Oh ! you mean co lar. Well, when are you going to 
bring them home? 
Win. Fly 2 o'clock. 

Dollie. (grabs broom) Not on your life, you clon't fly at no 3 
o'clock with Sandy's laundry. 

Win. Oh! no, you no savee, me no skip e, me mean (counts on 
/inters) Mon., Tues., Wens., Thiws., Fly, saveyee. 

Dollie. Oh ! now I understand you, you mean Friday 2 o'clock. 
How much will they be? 
Win. Slixty-five centee. 

Dollie. You bald-headed heather n, why don't you talk United 
States? 

Win. Oh ! Dollie, you bee so awfully sweetee, Chinaman lovee 
youee; see, Dollie, you muehee lovee me, me mallv you, you 
mally me. Oh! so nice, me eat chee, heap plenty, lats you l'ike a 
lat. 

Dollie. (hits him with broom) Git out! (exit, Win, c. d. 

Enter, Silas, c. d., runs into Win Klee as he exits, and falls. 

Haj ha! ha! Why, what's the matter with you, Si'as? 
Silas. That dam Chinese run in to me as if a whirlwind was 



U SUNLIGHT; OR, THE DIAMOND KING. 

after him. What was the matter wid him? 

Dollie. Oh ! do you mean Mr. Win Klee, the owner of the 
laundry? (aside) Now is my chance to make him jealous. 
{aloud) Well, you see, Mi-. Steel— 

Silas. Mr. Steel — holy Moses! 

Dollie.. You see, last night was the grand dance up at Tom 
Shays, and of course I was to go, but — 

Sila*. Begorra! Dollie, I was so ;husy, that I clean torgot it. 

Lollie. Well, I didn't forget, so when I went I had a proposal 
of marriage. 

Silas. Who from, Dollie? 

Dollie. Why, from a man — 

Silas. Oh! 1 thought it was from a dude. 

Dollie. Not this time. 

Silas. And did you accept him, Dollie? 

Dotlie. You don't think I would refuse a proposition of mar- 
riage ? 

Silas. Oh! Dollie, have you entirely forgotten vour humble 
servant, Silas Steel. 

, Dollie. Oh! Dollie Wallace wants a man thnt is a man, she 
wants a man who is not afr.iid to propose marriage to her. 
! Silas, (aside) And I'm a devil, if now ain't me time, so here 
goes, {aloud) Do lie — (sits at, table and plays with Jlour. throws 
it all over himself, nervously) Dollie, as I was thinking that you 
was such a loine young lady, and all alone in this world, I — I — 

Dollie. (aside) I do believe he is going to propose, (aloud) 
Yes, Silas, go on. 

Silas. Sure, and that is what I'm trying to do, go on — (busi- 
ness of throat — aside) What the clivil is the matter wid me. 
(aloud) Dollie, do you love— love — love— 

Dollie. Love what, Silas? 

Si>as. Candy — 

Dollie. (disgusted) Oh! pshaw. 

Dollie throws \dough in his face and exit, c. d. — Win Gleep«{ ? 
head in door and yells. 

Win. Hello! Ilish! (Silas throws dough at Win. they chas°, 
each other, Silas stands at door c, with broom, waiting for Win, 
who enters r.. 1 e., and hits him with board — Silas goes to l., 1 e., 
and stands where Win exited, wailing for him — Win enters c. d. 
aivl hits Silas again and exits c.r>. — Silas runs ajter him in and 
out one wing to another, till Win comes in with a big board and 
gets on chair, c. d.) Me brackee Ilish headee. 

Enter, Bill, c. d., Win hits him. 

Allee mistakee. 

Bill. Gol darn your skin, Til — (kicks him off stage 

Enter, Sunlight, c. d. 

Sunlight. "Vfhy, Daddy, what is the matter? 
Bill. That dam Chinaman hit n e in the head with an ax, but 
I'll bet he eats his meals standing up for the next thirty days. 
Sunlight. Any passengers, dad t 



SUNLIGHT; OR, THE DIAMOND KING. lb 

Bill. Yes, child, Bud came up with me. 

Sunlight, Bud here? Oh! I can't meet him. 

Bill. Yes, child, you must meet him. You must be the fir.-t 
to tell him why vou gave him up for Sandy. Be brave, be strong, 
my child. 

Sunlight. Did you tell him? 

Bill. Ye«, he rode on the stage with me and I told him all , 
child, I told him all. 

Sunlight. What did he say ? 

BUI. Not a word, but a great big tear stole silentlv down hi* 
cheek, with a sob, he started to leave the coach, but I made him 
get back up again, it was an awful blow to him. Sandy'* 
partner loved you better than hi-; life. 

Sunlight. Daddy, what can I do? 

Bill. Stay right here and meet him. Be a woman, do your 
duty, and I, your old d iddy, will try and help you through. 

Omnes. (outside) Hurrah ! 

Sunlight. Here comes Sandy and the boys. 

Enter, Sandy, Silas, Dollie and Win, c. d. 

Silas, (has a book in hand, gets on chair) Sandy and Sunlight, 
it is with pleasure that I — I — 1 — (Dollie is by his side 

Dollie. That's rig it, Silas, go on. 

Silas. As I was saying, it gives me — 

Dollie. Yes, yes, Silas. 

Silas. Oh! go away and let me alone, you bother me. Sandy 
and Sunlight, 1 — 1 — I — 

Dollie. Yes, Silas, go on. {pulls coat 

Silas. Say, do you want them clothes— a — a— a— oh ! the divil, 
if I know what 1 do want to say, you have knocked it all out of 
me head. (gets down 

Dollie. Oh ! pshaw, you are crazy. 

Silas. So, am I ? 

Win. (gets on chair) Sandy and Sunlight, you givee China- 
man one dollar, you takee bookee. 

Omnes. Get out! (Win drops book and goes l. 

Bill. Say, Smdr, the boys here want to give you two a 
Bible, and they don't know how to do it. There, you fools, it is 
done, and I hope you are satisfied. (hands book to Sandy 

Sandy. Well, boys, we are thankful to you for this kinlre- 
memberance, and 1 am sorry that L ain't got no whiskey in th * 
house, but we will all drink to the health of Sunlight, Dollie, can 
you fill upthe cups, and here's to you all. (crowd drink — Win, 
Bill and Silas all get cram »s and squirt the water out) Why, 
what is the matter, boys? 

Bill. Oh! Sandy, it's water, you have poisoned us. 

(exit, r., 1 e. 

Silas. Be the holy St. Patrick, but you have poisoned me. 

(exit, r., 2 e. 

Win. Allee samee just likee Melicanee manee, Chinamanee 
plo sonedee. {exit, c. d. 

iz"f'\ (ia '"-" uns) =»« '"»"»! 

Sandy. Water, Sunlight, was too weak for the boys. 
Sunlight. So it seems, Sandy. 



16 SUNLIGHT; 

Sandy. "Well, my dear wife, who do you think has come br.ck '? 
My old partner, Bud, and I want you, my own wife, to be the 
first one to meet him and to welcome him back to the valle}'". 

Sunlight. Oh ! Sandy, you love your old partner, don't you? 

Sandy. Well, Sunlight, I should sav I did, and ain't I got a 
right to love him? Ain't he been a true and honest partner to 
me? Didn't we dig for twelve long years, side by side, Kept our 
gold always together, and in all that time, we never had one cross 
word. What he had was mine, what I had, w r as his'n. Yes, I am 
proud to say, we two boys loved each other, and Sunlight, I'd 
sacrifice my life to make him happy. He has been gone three 
long years ,"and I want to show him, he is no stranger here now ; 
he will have a rousing welcome, for Sunlight, I teli you, there is 
nothing too good for my old partner, Bud. (exit, l., 1 e. 

Sunlight. "How can I meet him, what can I say to him? I can 
console myself with one though', I tried to do my duty. 

Enter, Walter Burrell, c. d. 

Walter. Sunlight here and all alone? 

Sunlight. Yes, I'm glad I'm all alone, for I have something to 
say to you, that is for no other ears. Time has made no change 
in you, you are the same. 

Walter. No, time so tar, has not altered me, but I find you are 
changed, but what else could 1 expect from yon. Women are all 
alike, and money rules this vast universe, and wh}^ should it be 
different with you ? 

Sunlight. No! no! Bud, do not accuse me of that; I may have 
forgotten our vows of constancv, but I ask yoj not to accuse me 
of that. 

Walter. What else could I say or aceus ■ you of. Three years 
ago, L left this Canyon, I went to Fort Laramie, because my 
partner said I should go. You and I parte 1 at the pines, you my 
promised bride — you swore you woul i he true to me. I left here 
happy as man could ever be. The three years p is-ed quickly — 
the day that I had looked tor, came — my commission was given 
me, i was discharged — my first thoughts were of you. I started 
for the Canyon ; at the forks, Bill told me all — it first I was go n ; 
back, never to see you or him again, but Bill made me come. 

Enter, Sandy, c. d., and listens. 

Sunlight. Bud, listen to me : When I came to this place, 
Yoseinite Bill brought me here, a child of five years. I was an 
outcast, with.no one to provide for me. Sandy's mother took me, 
gave me a home; I was reared as her own child, every comfort of 
a child's lite was given tome. When womanhood came, you was 
my companion, my friend. Is it any wonder my young heart 
went out to you, that you and I loved each other? 1 kept the 
secret, as it interested no one else. After you had gone, Sandv's 
mo. her came to me and said her son loved me, and it would give 
her the greatest pleasure in the world, to have us get married. 
A few days laier, Sandy asked me to become his wife, and Bud, 
although I did not love him, an I knowing you loved Sandy, and 
thinking it was my duty to make him happy, I became his wife, 
and since then I have devoted my life in trying to make them 
happy. And now Bud, you know all, condemn me if you will, I 



SUNLIGHT; OR, THE DIAMOND KING. 17 

only tried to do my duty, but now that you are here, this Canyon 
is not large enough to hold u^ three, one of us must go away. 

Walter, Sunlight, listen to me: 1 don't hlame you, your 
place is hy the side of the man you took as your husband. Let 
the past be dead; never let my partner know this. I shall go 
away from here to-night, go away lorever. You remain here, dj 
a good, kind and laithful wile to Sandy. Forgive and forget Bud. 
Sunlight, I go out of your lives forever. (starts to go 

Sandy. Stay ! 

»"' \ s -<* *«•» 

Sandy. Ye?, and I have heard every word. 

Sunlight. Oh! Sandy! 

Walter. Partner, what ran I say or do? 

Sandy. Say nor do nothing, hoy. You are not to blame, it is 
a 1 my own fault. She a young and pure being, a sunlight of 
beauty, why did I dare to Jove her, to ask her to be my wite, tool 
that I was. I made her my wife, and I have all these years con- 
demne 1 her to this misery. Bud, this Canyon is not large enough 
to hold us three, too true; one must go away, and that one shall 
be me. 

Y al !r- I No! no! no! 

Sunlight. ) 

Sandy. You, Sunlight, said those words, and it shall be my 
lot to carry out the saying. Go and leave us alone for a lew 
in ments. 

Sunlight. And you will come to me when you have finished 
t.. Iking with him. (emplores him) Oh! Sandy, promise me this. 

Sandy. 1 promise. (Sunlight rises and slowly exits, r., 1 e. — 
Waltkk crosses to l.., 1 e.) Boy, well do I remember the time 
you came down the mountain side, a ragged, homeless outcast, i 
took you in,* I made you my partner. You was honest, gocd and 
true, I learned to love you, and I tried to show it; when you got 
in bad company, when drink and cards were about to ruin you, 1 
got you pintel as a scout up at the Fort, I knew ic was the only 
thing that would save you, bnt it is all over now. Aspaitners 
we are parted now and forever, duty calls us apart. I am going 
away, and you must stay here, to guard over and protect your 
partners claim. 

Walter. No! no! Sandy, you shall not make this sacrifice, I 
must and will go. 

Sandy. No, listen to me, to-night I leave this Canyon, I go to 
Mexico, where 1 shall search for treasures. You must stay here 
to watch after mine; it, at the expiration of three years, you have 
not heard from me, you will know I am dead. Take her, my 
Sunlight, to the little Chapel there, and make her your wife and 
— and Bud, 1 know you will do as I ask. Sometimes, some even- 
ing, when she is you wife, take my baby on your knee and teach 
it the one word, ''father." You will do this— swear it, Bud, 
swear it. 

Walter. I swear — (raises eyes to heaven 

Sandy. In yonder safe, (Redfern loohs in at door) you will 
find money, thirty thousand in all, pay off the mortgage on this 
home, and t ie balance of the monev will be sufficient to care for 
them, until I can send you more. Good-bye, boy — partner, good- 



18 SUN LIGHT; OB, THE DIAMOND KING. 

bye, now and perhaps forever. My poor old mother, my wife, 

my child. Sandy bids you all farewell forever. (exit, c. d. 

Walter. Sandy ! Sandy ! gone ! gone, and perhaps forever. 

(throws himself on the table and chair, sobbing 

Enter, Redfern, c. d. 

Bedfern. I Ihought I saw Sandy go — no one here, eh? Well, 
that is good, he s;iid the money was in the safe. Well, if I am 
not very much mistaken, I will relieve that safe of the cash. 

Redfern takes off overcoat, gois to safe, makes iioise as ij he was 
breaking in the safe — Win Klee at window., 

Walter, (ra'ses from the tabic) What is that? I Ihought I 
heard some one at the safe, {(joes to safe) What are you doing- 
there? ( turns Redfern around) Philip Redfern, what means 
this? (Redfern shoots, Walter falls, c. 

Walter. My God! you — (falls back, dead 

Belfern. (slowly puts overcoat on, tools in pocket, then lights 
cigar on bottom of Walter's foot, stanis and looks at him) Well, 
yonng fellow, I am sorry for you, but you should have known 
better 5 than to trifle with a desperate man. Well now, that Sandy 
has gone, I will lay this crime at his door. Well, good-bye my 
boy: ha! ha! ha! (exit, c. d." 

Enter, Wjn Klee, through window. 

Win. (looks at Walter) Allee samee doadee, Led fern damee 
ra?cal. (exit, c. d. 

Enter, Sunlight, r., 1 e., with candle— lights up — soft music. 

Sunlight. Sandy! Sandy! where are you; surely lie has not 
gone, (sees Walter, kneels) My God ! it is Bud, and Sandy has 
killed him. Help! help! 

Enter* Dollie, Redfern, Bill, Jubal, Silas and Win Klee, c. d. 

Omnes. What is the matter? 

Sunlight. Don't yon s°e. Bud is dead, he has been murdered. 

Omnes. Murdered! Who did it? 

Bedfern. See here men, it was well known that Bud loved this 
woman, and Sandy was jealous of him. Come, let this woman 
tell where her husband is. 

Omnes. Yes! yes! where is Sandy? 

Bedfern. You'see she is silent. 1 tell you men, this was a con- 
spiracv between this woman and her husband, to murder Walter 
Burrell. What say you? 

Omnes. Aye! aye! 

Bedfern. Then as sheriff of this valley, I order a posse to scour 
the mountains and woods, and find Sandy Marvin, and as sheriff 
of this district, I shall put this woman under arrest. 

(starts toioard Sunlight 

Bill. Hold on there, Philip Redfern, that is my little gal and 
you shall not touch her. (anils ]jistol from pocket 

Bedfern. Why curse you, will you try to euchre me? 

(draws knife 



SUNLIGHT; OR, THE DIAMOND KING, ID 

Bill. Well, if euchre is your game, here are the two bowers. 

(holds up two pistols 
Dollie. And here is the little joker; now, which trick will you 
r,ake ? Ha ! ha ! (holds up revolver 

CURTAIN. 



ACT III. 

SCENE. — Mining Cave, Uriqite, Mexico — Win discovered washing. 

Win. Allee samee workee in Milexico allee samee like in Cali- 
fornia, washee, washee allee time. 

Enter, Jubal, e., 1 e. 

Jubal. Say, China, you is the craziest Chinaman I ever seed. 
Say, what did you go and pour all dat starch in my soup for? 

Win. Starchee, make soupee thickee, belly goodee. 

Jubal. Well, in future time, ) 7 ou jist keep way from my cook 
pot. Darn fool, don't you see dese highwaymen am all stuck up 
enough now, needn't make 'em any stiffer. They don't speak 
to me now,fceptin it is here, nigger, or here coon. Bimeby, dey 
will be oiling me pos-om. 

Win. Nigger aliee samee like possom. 

Jubal. Well, neber you mind dis nigger, you just keep way 
Iiom dat cook pot, and if you don't, 1 carve you wid my razor. 
Now, 1 am not fooling. 

Win. Allee samee keep way. Hello! here comes °;ang. 

Jubal. Yes, dey all come in time to eat, but dey wm be mighty 
stuck up after dey eat dis soup. (exit, l., 1 e. 

Enter, Bandits, r. u. e. — march played. 

Palacio. Hello! Mongolian, hard to workee, eh? 
Win. Oh ! yah ! belly hard to workee washee, you like dinner 
coon'ee got good soupee. 
Palacio. Got coon soup for dinner, eh ? 
Win. Oh ! no nigger soupee for dinner. 
Palacio. What, got nigger soup? 
Win. Oh ! no, nigger cookee good soupee, <»avey. 
Palacio. Oh ! I understand now. 

Enter, Redfern, c. p. 

Redfern. Juan, come here. 

Palacio. Aye! aye! Captain Vascard, I am here sir I 

Pedfern. Where is Sienti and the negro? 

Palacio. The negro is getting dinner, sir ! and Sienta is there 
in his cell. 

Pedfern. Not dead yet, eh ? I ordered him to be executed. 
Why has my order not been obeyed ? 

Palacio. Captain, the night you left, I told the men ic was 
your order that he should die that night, and his body thrown to 
the vultures next morning. I got ready to cast for lots, to see 
who would be his executioner, and the men all refused to have a 
hand in it. 



SG SUNLIGHT; OB, THE DIAMOND KING. 

Bedfern. But they didn't dare rebel ? 

Palacio. No, not "that, sir! but the Mexicans think nothing 
of murdering a sane man, for they are superstitious and siy 
it's an evil deed to kill an insane creature, they claim his spirit 
will haunt them till death, and seem to believe that all luck will 
desert them the moment the deed is committed. 

Bedfern. Bah! such nonsense. I tell you Juan, it's not safe 
to let him live, he is a most dangerous foe, and if let live, will soon 
enough place a halter around our necks. Now, I tell you once 
for ail, he must die to-ni2:ht, if I have to kill him. 

Palacio. That sir, will be bad policy, for these men will turn 
against you, and you know that will not do. 

Bedfern. So, that is how the case stands, eh? 

Palacio. A. Mexican on these mountains, armed, dare any- 
thing, yet they are decidedly an ignorant class. Remember now 
all the circumstances connected with this Sienta. No one knows 
who he is. One year ago we found him and that Chinaman half 
starved, in rags and a raving maniac at Sana Maltso; he had 
lived, God knows how long, on wild fruit and berries. He was 
constantly talking of a chart that he had lost, a great treasure. 
You ordered him brought here and placed in our dungeon. We 
d'd all you said sir! and as you paid us your semi-annual visit, 
one of your first questions would be as to the safety of Sienta. i 
may be wrong, Captain, but I believe there is some hidden motive 
in you keeping the poor being in the cell. I sometimes think you 
know who his people are. 

Bedjern. I — I — what makes you think that? 

Palacio. You are not as confidential now as you were in for- 
mer days. These men have stood the test, they are tried and true. 
In former days you were with us every three months, but now 
your visits are only every six months. In times that are past, 
yoa was one of us, your confidence was ours, but now your secret 
belongs to you and no one else. The<e men realize the game you 
are playing on them, they pity this unfortunate being and fear 
you, but if it keeps up much longer, I am afraid the men will turn 
from Vascard to Sienta. 

Bed/em. You are right, Juan, I do know thi* man, he is 'a 
partner of Signor Cordello, one of our number who escaped us 
five years ago and w ent to Utah, where he died by the hand of th i 
avenger. 

Palacio. But this hidden treasure that he speaks off? 

Bedfern. 'Twas the jewels, diamonds and coin, which Cordello 
stole from our treasure vault just before ne started. Fearing that 
we would overtake him with the wealth, he buried it in a cave 
somewhere in the Sierra Madrid mountains, and made a chart of 
the spot; he then fie 1 to Mexico and informed upon us; conse- 
quently we were forced to fly from our old cave, and well you 
know, we came here in the heart of the Sierra Madrid mountains 
and made our home. After I saw us safely moved, I started in 
search of the traitor. I found him at Yosemite Valley, where he 
died. My trusty stilleto (taps knife) did the deed. Prior to his 
death, he had given Sienta, who was his partner, these papers, or 
chart, with the instruction to go and find the hidden treasure. 
These facts I learned at that city. There it was I wired you to go 
toChickauwa, where I had hopes of meeting this Sienta, and now 



SUNLIGHT; OB, THE DIAMOND KING. £1 

you know the secret — I will explain why I have kept him all thes e 
months. I was in hope?, reason would come to him, and that w e 
might learn more of our treasure. There being no hopes for th e 
lellow, I ordered him to die. 

Palacio. And why should he die? 

Bedfem. Juan, while investigating about Cor.lello's career, I 
met this Sienta at his homo, lie married a woman that I loved, and 
while there, for a seeming insult as he termed it, I was turned 
from his house, Th it was a moment that 1 sha 1 never forget, my 
very blood boile \ and 1 tell you, the man must die to-night. 

Palacio. The man is called Sienta, his true name is — 

Beclfe m. S i n d y M a r v in . 

Palacio. From — 

Bedfem. Yosemite Valley, Cal fornia. Why do you ask? 

Palacio. It was from the same valley that you sent the nigger 
from, was it not? 

Bedje n. Yes. 

Palacio. Then he knows this Sienta? 

Bedfem. An 1 knows him well. 

Palacio. To-night Captain, when the boys are asleep, (gives 
rial) place a few drops of this in a cup of water, 

Enter, Win Klee, c. d., at back and listens. 

give it to Sienta to drink, and in the morning he will be no more* 
I e will be out of your wav forever. 

Bedfem. Is there enough here? 

Palacio. Yes, there is enough to poison the whole camp. 
Win. (aside) Chinaman putee in the soupee. (exit, l., 3 e. 

Bedfem. What excuse can we give the men, when he is found 
dead in the morning? 

Palacio. The drug is a deadly one, and leaves no trace behind 
it; it is the surest and quickest route to eternity. They will think 
he died of natural causes. 

Bedfem. That's good, it shall be clone to-night. Palacio, call 
the men, I wish to talk with them a few moments. 

(takes book from pocket 

Palacio. (goes to c. d.) Men, all hands this way! 

Enter, Omnes, c. d. 

Omnes. Ayel aye! sir! 

Palacio. Our commander wants to talk to you. 

Omnes. Aye! aye! sir! 

Bedfem. Times are getting hot for us. The Mexican govern- 
ment has equippe 1 two hundred men under General Mcivenzie. 
The United States Government offers a reward of live hundred 
dollars for each and every one of us, dead or alive. They have 
?worn to break us up. I know and so do you, what this last move 
means, it's a rope for each neck. Not wishing to get my men in 
trouble, I propose that we disband, divide our spoils and each 
separate, (looks at, paper) According to my statement, we have 
nearly one hundred thousand dollars in cash and jewels now on 
hand. It will net each man over nine thousand dollars. Our 
only way to be safe is in tight. Xow men, shall we divide and 
disband? 

Omnes. Aye! aye! Captain. 



£& SUNLIGHT; OB, THE DIAMOND KING. 

Bedfern. Then let every man come to the treasure cave, where 
we will weigh the spoils and make an equal divide. 

(exeunt, l. u. e. 

Enter, Win Klee, r., 1 e. 

Win. Gee! gee! belly bad uianee do a heap a killey. 

Enter, Jubal, l., 2 e. 

Jubal. Say, Chinaman, if ever you pester my cooking again, 
I'll— 

Win. Pshaw! don't talkee— bing! you die, plisoned, allee 
samee. 

Jubal. Is you gone crazy? What clo I know about bing, die ; 
all I knows that Philip Redfern is a dam renegade, and 1 wish I 
had known dis before. At de vallev he, promised me big money, 
to come out here and cook for his silver miners. I specks it am a 
mine too, it am a robber's mine. 

Win. Shootee you to-night. 

Jubal. Shoot who to-night? 

Win. You and me. 

Jubal. Who tole you dat? 

Win. Red fern. Shootee you, plois r m me and Slandy savey. 

Jubal. Ya-as, I do savey. Oh Lordie ! OhLordie! I'm dead, 
hold on ! Say, Chinaman, what's dis? (sees bottle on rocks 

Win. Ploison. Juan give to Redfern to ploison us wid. 

Jubal. Poison, so he is gvvine to poisjn us, is he? 
Win. Puttee in soupee, savey, bling, all deadee. 

Jubal. Yes, in de soupee it goes. Self defense. 

(exit, l. u. e. 

Win. Allee samee, heap a good time, bing, a 1 dead. 

(dances and exits, r., 2 e. 

Enter, Sandy, r. it. e. — soft music. 

Sandy. No one here, always left alone. I must search for it< 
where 1 can. Go where [ may, do what I will, no trace c in 1 find 
of it. Yes, the paper said to the left from the entrance, six steps, 
mark of cross over head. Blank, blank, all is a blank to me now. 
(quartette sing "Home, Sweet Home") Horn 1 , ''Home, Sweet 
Home," what is home? I've no home — (rays of light come from 
l. u. e.) The sunlight— Sunlight, her name, why did it cro-s my 
lip-. No, no, she is dead, dead to me forever! See, see how she 
beacons me to her side, a happy home, a wife tint rocks her bahe 
to sleep, a mother. All mourn their dead, dead ! (falls o:i couch 

Enter, Jubal, r, , 1 e. 

Jubal. Massa Sandy. 

Sandy. Sandy — who calls Sandy ? 

Jubal. It's me, Massa look at me. It is I, your old nigger, it's 
Jubal. Don't you know me? 

Sandy, (looks at him slowly) No, no, you are not Jubal ; Jubal 
was black. (falls back on coi c 'i 

Jubal. Lord b'ess my soul, Massa. so I was olack, but I'm done 
— white now. (aside) No use, 1 can't do noffln' for him. dar is 
gwine to be trouble here in a lew moments, (puts bottle back on 



SUNLIGHT; OP, THE DIAMOND KING. £3 

rock— aloud) Dat Chinaman poured all de pison in de soup, I 
washed de bottle out good and put whiskey in it, and now I'll just 
put. it back", so dey won't miss it. Ah! here dey come. 

{exit, r. e. 

Enter, Redfern, l, u. e. 

lledfern. IToiio ! Sandy Marvin, getting about, eh? * Weil," old 
boy. i guess my revenge is about complete. Get off that couch, 
[pushe.s hira with foot) the ground is uo d enough lor such as you. 

Sand]/. Don't barm me, I am ill, I am dying. (falls back 

Sedfern. Well, why don't \ on di. . (sees bottle, gets cup) Here 
is a good drink for you. (lifts him up) Take that and in a few 
moments you will feel bett r. (Sandy drinks and falls back 

Jiedfcrn. If you were ever taught to prny, now is the time to 
doit. I am fully avenged now, ha ! ha! ha! He will be dead in 
.- 1 . tew moments, (looks at watch) Fools, do they think I would 
let these few live, to some dav peach on me; no, they shall die. 
My plans are laid, in yonder room is the powder, over a hundred 
a id fifty kegs; I will makeatrail of powder from here, .<et a quick 
match, light it, leave here at once, the men while asleep, will be 
blown to eternity, and not a living soul will ever know tuat Philip 
Kedfern and Vascard were one and the same man. Now for the 
'.»owder. (exit, l., 1 e. 

Enter, Omnes. l. u. e., singing. 

Palacio. Boys, here is an unfortunate creature. \That say 
you, 'spose we take him with us, and place him in an asylum, his 
davsjareu't long on earth and it will be a deed to our credit. 

Canes. Ave! aye! 

Palacio. All in to supper now, and it's our last together, (calls) 
Jubal! Jubal! 

Enter, Jubal, l., 1 e. 

Jubal. Yes sir! (aside) 'Specks dis is whar de nigger dies. 

Palacio. Place plenty of wine on the table, let us all be merry, 
for it's our last meal here. 

Jubal. (aside) I hope so. (aloud) Alright, boss. 

(exit, r., 1 e. 

Palacio. There men, go, enjoy the feast. 

Omnes. Aye ! aye ! 

(all exit, r., 3 e., except Palacio and Sandy 

Palaci >. This is the secret, (pulls paper from breast) this is the 
document, the chart of hidden weilth. When Seinta first came 
to me, I took the paper, no one knows why I selected this cave, 
in the heart of the Seirra, Nevada Mountains for our home. 1 
knew it was the identi :al spot named in this chart, and for eight 
months, I have ?< inched silently for that treasure, but to no avail. 
I have waited patiently for my time to come — Vascard! Does he 
think he has fooled me, no. The pot ; on I gave him would not 
kill, it will onl}' produce s'eep. To-night [ sha'l act, now to the 
banquet, (sees Sandy) Poor devil. I may he a bandit, a robber 
and guerrilla, but think heaven. I have eooug'i of man in me to 
say, I'll see you come to no harm. (exit, r., 3 e. 



24 SUNLIGHT; OR, THE DIAMOND KING. 

Enter, Silas, c. d. 

Silas. Well, if this ain't the devils own work. I took a tele- 
gram that Dollie had, and I ciphered it out. It was addressed to 
Philip Red fern, and I discovered that Red fern was a divil, so I 
watched my chance, when he left the village, I left too. I fol- 
lowed him a little late, bat I guess I'm all right. I wonder what 
the divil of a place this is. (looks around) Hello! begorra, whit's 
that I see, as I live 'tis Redfern, he is standing in front of a big 
mountain of powder, see he has set a candle in the powder — he 
comes this way — I'll hide. (exit, behind rocks 

Enter, Redfern, l., 2 e. 

Redfern. It's done, in a few moments this place will be 
blown to — goo 1-bve Sienta, my revenge is now complete; good- 
bye Mexico, an 1 forever. (exit, c. d. 

Enter, Silas, from behind rocks. 

Silas. The divil is at it again, (sees Sandy, who rises up) 
Hello! Santa Glaus, be gorra, it's the divil himself that co r.e > this 
way. (looks around) L il follow Redfern. 

(exit, behind rock and watches 

Enter, Palacio, r., 3 e. 

Palacio. Yes, I have ciphered the chart, the treasure of 
diamonds are found. 

Silas, (from behind rock) My God, it is Sandy! 
Palacto. Ye», found, here is the chart. 
Sanuy. (sees him) Give it to me, it is mine. 

Sandy grasps paper, they struggle — Sandy is thrown r. c, 
Palacio starts jor him. 

Enter, Win Klee and Jural, r., 1 e. 

Silas. Hold on ! Drop that weapon, or you die. 

Silas and Sandy r. c, Jural and Win Klee to r. — explosion 

off Is. 

Sandy, (staggers to c, leaving paper) Found, found, I am the 
Diamond King. 

CTJBTAIN. 

A lapce of three years between Act 3rd. and 4th. 



ACT IV. 

SCENE.— Exterior of Hotel -Mrs. Marvin and litLX discovered' 

Bill. Mrs. Marvin, three' years ago Sandy left ui. Evei sine >■ 
then I've tried hard to keep the Inn a going. ' I sold my stage and 
horses, but no good, hard times is against us. We must leave here 
soon or Sunlight will die, she is grieving herself to death. You 



SUNLIGHT; OE, THE DIAMOND KING. 25 

believed that yarn that I told you, about finding her when she 
was a baby in the ereek, didn't you ? 

Mrs. 31. Why certainly. 

.Bill. Well, don't believe it any longer, it's a blamed lie. 

Mrs. M. Yosemite Bill ! 

Kill. That's me, and here is the truth. This very night, eigh- 
teen years ago, my stage left Raymond at 6 o'clock. Jus.: as I got 
in .sight of the Seirra big trees, a stranger halted me, I took his 
wife and baby inside as passengers; he sat on the seat outside, he 
placed his wife and child in my care, and five hundred dollars in 
£old. I was to bring them here and keep them till I heard from 
him. In the darkness he suddenly left me. When his wife learned 
wf his desertion, she snatched my pistol from my belt, and before 
I could hinder her, eha lay dead at my feet. It was a fearful 
night. I was alone with a dead woman and a live child, and not 
smother soul within five miles. Well, Widdy, I was skeered, and 
if I had been found with them, it's likely I would have been 
lynched for murder. So I just buried the mother and brought 
the child to you. 

Mrs. 31. And the father, did you ever hear of him again? 

Bill. Yes, he came back, and the man that died so sudden that 
night, three years ago, was him. 

Mrs. 31. And the money ? 

Bill. I gave it to Sandy to keep for me, and it disappeared the 
night that Sandy went away, so now you know the truth. You 
can tell Sunlight; my conscience is easier. (exit, l. e. 

Mrs. M. I will go and tell her all about it. (exit, l. e. 

Enter, Silas, r. e. 

Silas. Again the happiest of men plants his feet on familiar 
soil. Hello! as I live, here comes Dollie. I'll see if she knows 
"me. 

Enter, Dollie, l. u. e. 

Dollie. A stranger. Hello! well, what will you have? (hits 
hini witk duster) Hello ! 

Silas. I beg your pardon, if there is anything in my personal 
appearance, that leads you to suspect that my clothes needs dust- 
ing, be a little more easy. Han^r it! you nearly took my breath. 

Dollie. Served you right, who are you? What are you, and 
when did you come from the skies ? 

Silas. Skies? Do you think I'm an angel? Nixey, my name 
is — 

Dollie. What! you ain't ashamed of it, are you? 

Silas. No, the fact of it is, 1 am a missionary. 

Dollie. A preacher! Oh ! why didn't you say so before? Are 
you married? 

Silas. Married no, but hope to be soon. 

Dollie. Engaged then? 

Silas. Nary a time, not yet. 

Dollie. Say parson, you ain't looking for a gal, are you? 

Silas. Yes, I'm looking for a girl that stole my heart three 
years ago, by the name of — Dollie, don't you know me? 

Dollie. Oh! Silas, is it you at last? (they shake hands 

Silas. All that's left of me. 



SG SUNLIGHT; OE, THE DIAMOND KING. 

Dollic. Come, sit down and tell me all about where you have 
been, who you have seen, and how much money you have made. 

Silas. Money, not a cent. Been all over the world and half 
way back again. 

Dollie. What did you come back for? 

Silas. To tell you Dollie, that I am going to get married and 
go back to dear old Ireland. 

Dollie. Married ! You are — who — too ? 

Silas. To you, so come along and let us tell the folks all about 
it. (exeunt, l. e. 

Enter, Redeern and Bill, r., 1 e. 

Eedfern. Yosemite Bill, I've called to s ly the mortgage is due 
on the Marvin estate; you as their business representative, can 
best tell whether you are ready to p \y it ? 

Bill. No sir! 

lied/em. What hopes have you to pay it soon ? 

Btl'. It is best sir! to speak the truth, we have none. 

Eedfern. That's decidedly bad. Well Bill, here is a notice the 
law compels me to give you, in three days I shall foreclose the 
mortgage and eject you and your baggage into the street. 

Bill. Would you do that, Mr. Redfern ? 

Eedfern. Yes, the Marvin's treat mc with utter contempt, and 
I'll show them who Philip Redfern is. 

Bill. But sir! is there no way that we can arrange for a little 
longer time? 

Eedfern. None -yes, there is one. I'll let you de'iver the 
message lor me. If Sunlight will be my wife, all will be well. 

Bill. That will never be, sir! I'd sooner see my little gal dead 
in the street, than to know she was the wife of such a scoundrel 
as you. 

Eedjem. Very well, sir ! I have nothing more to say. Deliver 
that message, and in one hour, I'll call for my answer. 

(exit, r., 2 e. 

Bill. His wife, never! (exit, l. ,2 k. 

Enter, Sunlight and Mrs. Marvin, l., 1 e. 

Mrs. 31. Sit right here, the morning air will do you good. Is 
there anything else, my child? 

Sunlight. JNo, nothing, thanks. I am quite comfortable. What 
day is this? 

Mrs. M. Thursday, October 1st., my child. 

Sunlight. One year ago, Sunbeam, ray baby left us to be an 
angel. (weeps 

Mrs. M. There, don't worry dear, it will do you no good. 
How strange your name has been misapplied. It should have 
been darkness' instead of Sunlight, but better days will come again. 

Sunlight. But soon this Sunlight will fade and like a withered 
flower fall, and she will be at rest. 

Enter, Jubal, r. u. e. 

Jubal. D:s I specks am de hotel ? 



SUNLIGHT; OE, THE DIAMOND KING-. 27 

Enter, Bill, l , 2 e. 

Bill. Well, you gol darn fool nizger. where did vou come 
from ? 

Jubal. Jest corned over from Australia. 

Mrs. M. Sunlight, here is Jubal. 

Sunlight. Jubal, have you seen Sandy or heard of him ? 

Jubal. The Lord bless your soul Miss, no, not a word. Mis- 
tress, have you got any possoin and taters in de kitchen, for I tell 
you dis nigger is powerful hungry. 

Mrs, 31. Bill, take him in and get him a good dinner. 

Jubal. Mistress, I jest wants you to be bravo and strong, and 
when I gets my dinner, I'm comingout here to give you de biggest 
sprize party you ever had. Dis nigger done sione and got married, 
yes indeedy. . (exit, Bill and Jubal, l. e. 

Enter, Dollie and Sandy, r. e. — Sandy disguised as a Mexican. 

Dollie. Mother, a gentleman to see Sunliiht. {exit, r. e. 

Mrs. M. Will you walk in the house, sir? 

Sandy. I would prefer to talk here. 

Mrs. 31. Be seated. 

Sandy, (seated) The lady is ill? 

Mrs. 31. My daughter, Sunlight. 

Sandy. My name is Sienta, of Mexico. 

frs.M. | Mexico! And vou— 

Sunlight J 

Sandy. Would like to engage board with you for a short time. 

Mrs. M. Did you say you were from Mexico? 

Sandy. Yes, Chickauwa, Mexico. 

Sunlight. Oh sir! have you ever met a man by the name of 
Marvin, Sandy Marvin? 

Sandy. No, never, was he a relative? 

Sunlight. My husband. 

Sandy. Has your husband been gone long? 
• Sunlight. He left three years ago. 

Sandy. And have you not heard from him in that time? 

Sunlight. Not aline, nothing. Oh! mother, he is dead ! dead! 

Sandy. Madam, perhaps he may return soon. Would it b>, 
taxing you too much, if 1 ask why he left home? 

31rs. M. In search of a hidden treasure. 

Sandy. A foolish errand, he will tire soon and return home. 

Mrs. M. He will come when it is too late. 

Sandy. Why too late ? 

Mrs. M. The night he disappeared, his partner was murdered, 
our safe robbed, and they claim he was the one that committed the 
crime. 

Sandy. On what grounds? 

Mrs. 31. His knife was found near the body. 

Sandy. No evidence at all; your case interests me, when I re- 
turn to my home, I will search for this man, and if he is in Mexico, 
I'll find him. Is there any message that you would send to him? 

3Irs. 31. Oh sir! If you could only find him, tell him for us, 
Ave forgive him, know he never did the (}eed. Tell him that 
Sunlight says, she loved him always, but only learned the night 
he was gone, how clear he was to her. Plead with him to come 
back and clear his name of this fearful stun. You will do this. 



28 SUNLIGHT; OB, THE DIAMOND KING. 

won't you? 

Sandy. I will. 

Enter, Redfern, l. u. e. 
Bedfprn. I have come for my answer, Mrs. Marvin. Beg 
pardon, didn't know you had company. 

Enter, Omxes, r. and l. e. 

Sandy, (springs up) Philip Redfern, we meet face to face at 
last. 

liedf rn. Yes, boys s. ize that man, he is none other than Sandy 
Marvin, the murderer. 

Sunlight. J Sandy! thank God! 

Mrs. M. ) (Mrs. Marvin's arm around Sunlight 

Bedftrn. (to men) Do as you are bid. 

Sandy. They don't seize very fast, do they? Do you know 
why, well listen, a:id I'll tell you, Viol Vaseard. D > you see 
that piper? I have a warrant from Mexico, to bring the outlaw 
back, to answer for the many crimes comm.tted there. Boys, 
there' is the murderer or my partner. 

Redfern. It's a lie! where is rour proof? 

Win. Lishtee here, my Mexican ee. 

Sandy. Win saw you commit the deed, then j'ou followed me 
7) Mexico. 

Bill. Gol darn it boys, Jn lge Lynch asks your verdict. 

Omnes. Guilty! 

Bill. Get his ticket. (they get a rope 

Bed/em. Palacio, the traitor did this the game is up. [ suppose. 
Hold on gentlemen, please tie this silk scarf around my neck, it 
won't burn the skin. Now I'm ready, good-bye. Ladies adieu. 
(raises hat, exits, r. e., with crowd, cheering 

Sandy. Sunlight. (arms aound her 

Sunlight. Smdy. 

Win." Hullohee! allee samee dam fine. 

Bill. Gol darn hi; picture; shake pard. (Sandy and Bill 
shake) Boys, welcome back to the Canyon, Sandy Marvin. 

Omnes. Hurrah! 

Win. Tiglee! 

Sandy. Thank you boys, we will all be happy, for Sandy 
Marvin has returned a "Diamond King." 

CUBTAIN. 

THE END 



SUNLIGHT; OB, THE DIAMOND KING. 29 

SYNOPSIS 01 EVENTS. 

ACT I.— Hotel at Yosoniite Valley— A game of carls— Receipt for $10,000— A 
ruined man— "Enjoy life while it lasts, iorwlvn you are deal, it's a long time"— 
The oath— Dollie and Sandy— 'Take a fool's a IvL-e"— The letter in cipher— J ubal 
and Dollie— The whiskey test— "No sir! d'scoon won't be exploded"— Silas, the 
Irish advertiser— Win Klee.theChinaman assists Silas— Tip- nroposil interrupte I 
— Yosemite Bill and Sileartie at the 1 otel— Mrs. Marvin and Bill— "A letter from 
Sandy's rartner. Bud"— Bill's story of how he found the little gal— "She's been 
the sunlight of our home"— "The shadows fall"— Sun ight and Redfern— A 
villain's propo-al— Sandy appears— "You wdl both regret th s hour"— Draw poker, 
Chinaman akes a hand— Sil artie's story and it's sequel— "Sunlight, my child" — 
'Guard these papers with your life"— Dismal forbodings— "Traitor!"— Redfern 
murders Silcartie and escapes. 

ACT II.— Do lie and Win Klee, his proposal to Dollie— S las and Dollie— "[ 
want a man who is not afraid to propose"— Sunlight and Bill— News of Bud's 
arrival— Sandy overyears Sunlight's explanat : on to Walter— ''The Canyon can't 
nold in three"— Sandys deoision and farewell — Walter murdered by Redfern— 
Win Klee appears at window— Redfern accuses Sandy of the murder— Two bowers 
and the little joke. 

ACT III.— M ring eve in Mexico— Win and Jub .1— Arrival of Bandits— 
Palacio and Redfern— "Sienta must die to-night,"— The deadly drug— "Away to 
t' e tie sure cave"— Win and Jubal prepare a surprise for the Bandits— Jubal 
changes drug for whiskey— Sandy, as Sienta, the crazed miner— Redfern gives 
Sandy the supposed poison— "Now die, I'm avenge 1'— Sandy and Jubal— Red- 
fern's villainy— Silas in search of Sandy— Palacio has the chart, a struggle, in 
wh.ch Sanely recovers t e chart— "Found! found! I am the Diamond King"— Ex- 
p!os on. 

AC! IV.— Bill and Mrs. Marvin— Sunlight's sorrow— Silas returns to Dollie as 
a missionary— Kedfern claims Sandy's property— Sandy arrives disguised — "No 
word from my husband? "—Sandy and Redfern meet— The disguise thrown off— 
"Redfern, ^ou murdered Walter BurreJl — Win Klee a witness — Judge Lynch — 
Happy reunic n between Sandy and Sunlight— "I have returnel a Diamond King." 



Every Amateur wants a copy, and should 
order at once. 



Hints to Amateurs, 



BY A. D. AMES. 



A book of useful information for Amateurs and others, written ex- 
pressly for those who are giving public enttetainments — and 
who wish to make their eltoits successful — containing 
much information never before given. Mr. Ames 
has had many years experience, and ii 
this work gives many hints which 
cannot fail to be of great 
benefit to all. 



\>o you wish to know How to act? 

Do you wish to know How to make up? 

Do you wish to know How to make fuses ? 

Do you wish to know How to be prompted ? 

Do you wish to know How to imitate clouds? 

Do you wish to know How to imitate waves? 
Do you wish to know How to make thunder? 
Do you wish to know How to produce snow? 
Do you wish to know How to articulate? 

Do you wish to know How to make lightning? 
Do you wish to know How to produce a cra*sh? 
Do you wish to know How to make a wind-storm? 

Do you wish to know How to be successful on the stage? 

Do you wish to know The effects of the drama on the mind? 
Do you wish to know How to assign parts successfully? 
Do you wish to know The duties of the property man? 

Do you wish to know How ot arrange music for plays? 
Do you wish to know Many hints about the stage? 

Do you wish to know How to form a dramatic club* 
Do you wish to know The duty of the prompter? 

Do you wish to know How to conduct rehearsals? 

Do you wish to know The best method for studying ? 
Do you wish to know How to make a stage laugh ? 

Do you wish to know How to burn a colored fire* 
Do you wish to know How to make a rain storm ? 

Do you wish to know A short history of the drama ? 
Do you wish to know All about scene painting? 

Do you wish to know Macready's method for acting? 

If you wish to know the above, read Hints to Amateurs, it will be 
sent you for 15 cents per copy. 




ESTABLISHED 1870 -TWENTY-TWO YEARS OF SUCCESS ! 

500,000 PLAYS WANTE D. 

Do not retain your copies of Plays you do not de- 
sire to use, but take advantage of the 

EXTRAORDINARY OFFER! 

Made only by Ames' Publishing House ! 

PLAYS EXCIi 

lf^gr 5 * We will exchange Plays as follows: For 
every copy sent us published by Baker, Roorbach, 
Denison, and of French's Standard Dramas, we 
will send one from Our Own List, which is headed : 
"Ames' Series 

15Tg will not EXchangE for Lacy's, Dick's, 
Cumberland Edition; or, Plays in Uur List. 

The books sent us must be clean and whole. 

Prepay your postage, or express charges. 

Do not ask us if we will exchange any other way 
— it will be time wasted. 
Address, 

AMES' PUB'G. CO., 

Lock Box 152. CLYDE, OHIO. 

KW~ Always remember that we fill orders for any Play pub- 
lished, no matter whether you see it on any of the catalogues 
we send out or not. 

Don't fail to put your ad- 
dress on wrapper. In your 
order state titles of books and 
number of plays sent in for 

A-v^l^nr»o , £i I If tnesore( l uestsarenotcoin P ne dwith 
t3-X.CHc^;Il^". I no notice will be given your order. _4g) 



The Wood Fairies. 



AN ARBOR DAY ENTERTAINMENT, 

— BY — 

Mrs. Arzalea Hunt. 

This piece was written especially for school children — 
to be used on Arbor Day. 



Teachers have long felt the want of something 
suitable for this occasion. This exercise can be ar- 
ranged to suit your wants. If you desire more music, 
songs suitable can be introduced between the coming pi 
the Fa ries. When the Oak is represented, someone 
takes a branch from each Fairy. The number of pupils 
is immaterial. Every teacher s ould see a copy or this 
piece. Price 25 cts. 

AVisit from Mother Goose 
and her Family. • 

by Mrs. Arzalea Hunt. 

A discriptive Pantomime Play. Time, one hour. 

Characters: — Mother Goose — Old King Cole— Old 
Mother Hubbard— Daffy Down Dilly— Little Boy Blue 
— Peter Pumpkin Eater and wife — Little Bo-peep — Miss 
Muffet — Simple Simon — Humpty Dumpty — Little Jack 
Horner — Jack and Jill, and etc. 

This piece can be represented by grown persons, mak- 
ing it very amusing, as well as by children. 
Costumes are given. Just the piece to 
help out your entertainment. 
Price 25 cts. 

Quotation Book. 

A large collection of choice quotations, alphabetic- 
ally arranged. Price 25 cts. 



■ 



^ 



iLmes' Plays — G ontinuBQ. 



M. V. 

146 Our Awful Aunt 

53 Out in the Streets 



ived 2 3 

urn of the Ti ...7 -I 

... 4 2 
62 Ten Nights in a Bar-Room 

58 Wrecked 

COMEDIES. 
I) i,v In A Doctor's Offic 

Legal Holiday A 3 

7 3 

:; Afflicted Fa mi I; y 

night in the Act 

iptured 

178 Caste 

ictory Girl 

207 Heroic Dutchman of 76.... 

199 Home 4 3 

174 Love's Labor Not Los 

Tiger Hunt i 1 

149 New Years in N. Y 

37 Not So Bad After All 

237 Not Such a Fool as He Looks 6 3 

•ur Daughters 8 ti 

265 Pugandthe Baby 

Ill Passions 

2H4 Prof. James' Experii 

chinsrOountry School.... 

Lags and Bottles 1 1 

irps andFlai 
olon Shingle It 2 

87 The Biter Bit 

rhe Cigarette 

240 $2,000 Reward 2 

TRAGEDIES. 

16 The Serf 

FARCES & COMEDIETTA S . 

. ir-u-ag-oos 

Lctorand Servant 

Capital Match 

Kiss in the Dark 2 3 

i'exan Mother-in-Law 

Day Well Spent 

Regular Fix 

sional Gardener 4 2 

larmingly Suspicious 

11 ln A Mud He... 
78 An Awf id Criminal, 
.miking Fatl 
1 A Pet of the Public... 
1 A Romantic Attach m 
! Thrilling Item... 



A I: 



Baker. 






NO. 

86 
84 

lit 

218 

224 

154 

271 
116 

50 

14(1 
74 

11 

:: 

mi; 

,iu 
;i 
44 



Better Half 5 

Black vs. White.. 

tin Smith 

Cheek Will Win 3 

i Josiata 1 

Cupids Capers 4 

lion Party. 5 

Double Election 9 

Der Two Surprises 1 

Deuce is in Him 5 

Did I Dream it 4 



DutchyTs. Nigger 

Dutch Prize Fighter 3 

I 
3 
4 



do Felicity 
Eh? What Did You Say 

Everybody Astonished... 
Fooling with the Wrong Man 2 
Freezing a Moiher-in-Law... 2 

Fun in a Post Office 4 

Family Discipline 

Family Jars 5 2 

. ith the Golden Eggs.. 5 3 

Give Me My Wife 3 3 

Uallabahocla, the Medicine 

Mao 4 3 

Hans, the Dutch J. P 3 1 

Ilaiis Brummel's Cafe 5 

Hash 4 2 

II. M.S. Plum 1 1 

How She has Own Way 1 3 

How He Popped the Quest'n. 1 1 

How to Tame M-in-Law 4 2 

How Stout Your Getting 5 2 

Incompatibility of Temper... 1 2 

In the Wrong Clothes 5 3 

Jacob Shlaff's Mistake 3 2 

Jimmie Jones 3 2 

John Smith 5 3 

Johanea Blatz's Mistake 4 3 

Jumbo Jum 4 3 

Killing Time 1 1 

Kittie's Wedding Cake 1 3 

Lick Skillet Wedding 2 2 

Lauderbach's Little Surprise 3 
Locked in a Dress-maker's 

Boom 3 2 

Lodgings for Two •-> 

Love in all Comers 5 3 

Matrimonial Bliss 1 1 

Match for a other-Min-Law.. 2 2 

More Blunders than one 4 3 

■I 6 1 

."My Heart's in Highlands 4 3 

My Precious Betsey 4 4 

My Turn Next 4 3 

My Wife's Relations 4 4 

My Day and Now-a-Days 1 

My Neighbor's Wife 3 3 

Nanka's Leap Year Venture.. 5 2 

Nobodv's Moke 5 2 

Our Hotel 5 3 

Olivet 

Obedien 1 & 

On the 



rE 




016 103 852 



NO. 

57 
217 
165 
195 
X59 
171 
180 
267 
309 

48 
138 
115 

55 
327 
232 
241 
270 
1 
326 
339 
137 
328 
252 
315 

40 

38 
101 
167 
291 
308 

285 
68 
295 
54 
28 
292 
142 
276 
263 
7 
281 
312 
269 
170 
213 
332 
151 
56 
70 
135 
117 
155 

111 

157 



17 
130 



215 



Paddy Miles' Boy 5 2 

Patent Washing Machine 4 1 

Persecuted Dutchman 6 3 

Poor Pilicody 2 3 

Quiet Family i 4 

Rough Diamond. ..77. 4 8 

Ripples 2 

Room 44 2 

Santa Ciaus' Daugh'er 5 4 

Schnaps 1 1 

Sewing Circle of Pfriod <> 5 

S. H. A. M. Pinafore 

Somebody's Nobody 3 2 

Strictly Temperance 2 2 

Stage Struck Yankee 4 2 

Struck by Lightning 2 2 

Slick and Skinner 5 

Slasher and Crasher 5 2 

Too Many Cousins " i 

Two Gentlemen in a Fix... 

Taking the Census 1 

The Landlords Revenge 3 

That Awful Carpet Bag 3 

That Rascal Pat 3 

That Mysterious B'dle 2 

The Bewitched Closet 

The Coming Man 3 

Turn Him Out 3 

The Actor's Scheme 4 

The Irish Squire of Squash 

Ridge 4 

The Mashers Mashed 5 

The Sham Professor... 4 

TheSnellin' Skewl 7 

The Two T. J's 4 

Thirty-three Next Birthday.. 4 

Tim Flannigan 5 

Tit for Tat 2 

The Printer and His Devils.. 3 
Trials of a Country Editor.... 6 
The Wonderful Telophone.... 8 

Two Aunt Emily* 

Uncle Ethan 4 

ITniust Justice 6 

IT. S. Mail 2 

Vermont Wool Dealer 5 

Which is Which 3 

Wanted a Husband 2 

Wooing Under Difficulties 5 

Which will he Marry 2 

Widower's Trials 4 

Waking Him Up 1 

Why they Joined the Re- 
beccas n 

Yankee Duelist 3 

Yankee Peddler 7 



GUIDE BOOKS. 

Hints on Elocution 

Hints to Amateurs 

CANTATA. 
On to Victory 



ETHIOPIA 

204 Academy of Stars 

325 A Coincidence 8 

65 An Unwelcome Return 3 1 

15 An Unhappy Pair 1 1 

172 Black Shoemaker 4 2 

98 Black Statue 4 2 

22 Colored Senators 

214 Chops 

145 Cuff's Luok 2 

190 Crimps Trip 5 

Fetter Lane to Gravesend 2 



3 



27 



153 Haunted House 2 

230 Hamlet the Dainty 6 1 

103 How Sister Paxey got her 

Child Baptized 2 1 

24 Handy Andy 2 

236 Hypochondriac The 2 

319 In For It 3 1 

47 In the Wrong Box 3 

77 Joe's Vis ; t 2 1 

88 Mischievous Nigger 4 2 

256 Midnight Colic 2 1 



128 Musioal Darkey 2 

90 No Cure No Pay. 



61 



297 
134 



Not as Deaf as He Seems 3 6 

244 Old Clothes 3- 

234 Old Dad's Cabin 2 1 

150 OldPompey 1 1 

246 Othello 4 1 

lft9 Other People's Children 3 2 

Pomp Green's Snakes 2 

Poran's Pranks 2 

258 Prof. Bones'Latest Invention 5 

177 Quarrelsome Servants 3 

% Rooms to Let 2 

107 School 5 

133 Seeing Bosting 3 

179 Sham Doctor 3 

94 16,000 Years Ago 3 

243 Snorts on a Lark 3 

25 Sport with a Sportsman.... 2 





1 


3 




92 Stage Struck Darkey 2 1 

2.38 Strawberry Shortcake 2 

10 Stocks Up, Stocks Down 2 

64 That Boy Sam 3 1 

253 The rfest Cure 4 1 

282 The Intelligence Office 3 

122 The Select School 5 

118 The Popcorn Man 3 1 

6 The Studio 3 

108 Those Awful Boys 5 

245 Ticket Taker 3 

4 Twain's Dodging 3 1 

197 Tricks 5 2 

198 Uncle Jetf 5 2 

216 Vice Versa 3 1 

206 Villkens and Dinah 4 1 

210 Virginia Mummy 6 1 

203 Who Stole the Chickens 1 1 

2ft5 William Tell 4 

156 Wig-Maker and His Servants 3 

Happy Franks Songter 



rh 



The Little Gem Make-Up Box. Price 50 Cents. 



i€ 



